The muslim world HAS to learn to play nicely with the rest of the world or face becoming marginalized. There's only so many times people can read about young girls being gang raped to punish their brother or young girls being forced to stay inside a burning building...
Come on. This is uncalled for, and at the very least distasteful.
There a billions of Muslims in the world. Are you suggesting that even the majority are bad.
You need to understand that the media has no incentive to show you the good that occurs in the world, regardless of religion. Someone dedicates their live to killing others, that's news. Someone dedicates their live to helping others, that's not.
You listed some very, very, nasty things that probably made the news because they are just that. Do you think those attrocities are unique to the Muslim community? You want to list the economic hardships women go through in the Western world? Or compare the worst that's been reported in Western papers?
Do you really? This is very disappointing, to be honest.
There's no genuine anger about the cartoons. They were published 6 months ago.
I am not condoning the violence, neither am I a muslim, but your argument doesn't follow. Not because the cartoons have been out for a while does it mean that no one cared. Has it occurred to you that it took that look to get out to the majority of the people who did care?
Did you hear about the cartoons when they were published. I know I didn't.
Like others have been saying, I use music sites to find more about a song I might have heard for the first time. Or some songs have lovely lyrics, and you just want to figure out what the entire piece is about.
But...
Music lyrics are copyrighted material...
And the agents of the MPA are presumabley, agents of the songwriters. And they are requesting that their works be taken down.
So why the outrage? Are you suggesting that you have some right to the songwriter's works against their wishes?
My solution to this issue is to let the MPA get what they want. Hopefully smarter artists will, in the future, fill the void this creates.
Having had XM for a few months, I can not even begin to tell how absolutely sucky broadcast radio is.
I don't like popular media either. I've switched television with Netflix and Blockbuster and had Sirius over FM. Six months ago I switched to XM.
Both XM and Sirius are much better than FM, hands down. But Sirius, to me, has the same annoying DJ problem, and XM will play just about any track on anybody's album. If I hear "That was 'rocking your naval' by 'CmdrTaco and the Trolls'..." someday, I won't be the least surprise.
XM, in my opinion, really needs to shorten their playlist a bit and Sirius needs less talk and to lengthen theirs.
Am I the only one concerned that this appears to be coming about from the efforts to protect Joe Righteous from "harmful" television instead of a desire to protect the consumer from price gouging package deals?
Why on earth does that concern you?
This proposal allows the viewer to decide what is indecent and what is ok.
Everyone, including Joe Righteous, should have a right to do this.
Remember, You do not have a right to impose your values on 'Joe Righeous' any more than he has a right to impose his on you.
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PHP's big problem is not language features anymore. It's the lack of innovation in the PHP server program.
Zend refuses to add basic features such as a basic accelerator ( PHP scripts get recompiled on every request ). In fact, there was a rumor that Zend bought and killed http://sourceforge.net/projects/turck-mmcache/, the best accelerator out there because it competed with their commercial product.
I understand that money has to be made for development to continue, but that's no way to compete.
PHP server needs true session and application scope variables. File-based session variables it has right now means that any variable that's not serializable ( eg. file descriptor ) can not be saved in the session scope. This is a huge problem. It results in developers making countless round trips to their database to serialize data, and hence making PHP scripts more dependant on close/performant database in general. There was an mmap based solution being worked on, but haven't heard much about it lately.
Other web environments have had these features for years.
I'm guessing that that sought of restriction on the PHP server will continue until an alternative server is developed and begins to gain popularity.
Interesting. Could this be an indication of things to come?
Opening up? Things to come?
Sun has been one of the biggest commercial open source supporters for years now. Probably only surpassed by IBM and the Linux companies ( RedHat and Suse, Linux is their core business after all ).
Millions to buy StarOffice, millions to setup and run OO.org and OpenDocument development, marketing, promoting OpenDocument. Releasing packages like GridEngine, etc. http://www.sunsource.net/. Years of shipping and support opensource applications to companies that would never have used it otherwise.
Back when I was a network admin, we got a whole lot of GNU software in the system by first showing superiors that Sun endorsed those packages and actually provided solaris binaries.
Sun's main issue is PR, I suspect. When IBM does something good, it makes sure everyone knows. But that doesn't seem to be McNealy's style...
The term predates computers. In the original usage, any sort of mechanical device or system could have bugs.
The thing is the term 'bug' predates even that definition. Bug was simply slang for problem,
Eg. Saying "You always seem to have a bug!" to a person that complains a lot. That example is from a short story written in the 1920's. The original usage probably came from the fact that bugs are probably a major annoyance back then.
I would switch to PostgreSQL if there were an embedded version.
SQLite is great but concentrates on being a small database. This design choice is great for many applications probably, though poor handling of large rows ( can't read partial blobs, etc. ), weak concurrency model, etc. inconveniences others.
Using stored procedures or triggers in a database is a sure way to tie yourself to a particular database platform. For appications that have to be cross-platform, I usually try very hard to avoid triggers and stored procedures.
It would be great if there was a common language for store procedures. The RDBMS may support many languages, but that scripting language would be available on most platforms since it was part of the SQL standard.
Another feature missing is optimization hints. Oracle uses special SQL comments to hint to the database how a query should be optimized. Other databases have their own syntax and methods. There should be a way to set those hints in standard SQL.
Have you not noticed the hundreds of thousands, if not millions killed due to religious hatred? The bible has inspired more deaths than any other book ever written and still does (ever heard of sectarian violence?).
The bible doesn't just encourange violence, some parts of the old testament actively order the reader to violence
Again, I'm not religous but I find ethics fascinating. Your argument is a common one, and not without merit, but it...
(i) makes the assumption that without organized religion these fundamentalist wouldn't be finding other reasons to kill each other. Using what we know if human nature, I suspect they would.
(ii) ingores any existing benefits chrisian ethics may have on existing practising societies. In other words, if the a moral doctrine says at times to kill and others times to not kill, how do we find out its net effect on the murder rate? Abrahamic religions allow violence in a few corner cases, but the overall very strongly discourages it.
These religions and also secular moral doctrines are tools, they have no conscious. Billions of people use these tools to pass along net beneficial ethics, moral doctrines, ideologies between generations.
Can you justifiably suggest that they abandon this approach because of the few Osama Bin Ladens of the world?
"Have we made absolutely certain books and movies are not degrading the minds of our children and... representation of violent and sexual acts are the cause of an increase of depraved sociopaths?"
Thank God there's nothing like that in the Holy Bible!
I am not religous person, nor do I think violence in video games is necesarily a problem but the bible bashing is really getting old.
Maybe you can explain why christian ethics directly contribute to the problem? Are you seriously arguing that the violence depicted in the bible may be also encourage violence in readers?
"Have we made absolutely certain books and movies are not degrading the minds of our children and video games and all computerized representation of violent and sexual acts are the cause of an increase of depraved sociopaths??"
No, we have not made absolutely certain.
And we can argue that video games are not really damaging to kids. But can we argue that, if it is, allowing one industry to get away with a crime reason enough to allow another?
Assuming both violent video games and movies are detrimental to the well being of minors, shouldn't society be regulating both, instead of neither?
Why not figure out how to make $100 water purifiers or A/C units that run of wind or solar? Or things that help make land arable?
Has it occurred to you that a significant amount of the third world has clean water and doesn't need A/C units?!
Not everyone who is poor lives like a child off a Sally Struthers commericial.
It's funny that the suggesting cheap educational computers be scrapped for A/C Units was modded insightful. Remarkable!
I grew up in a "third world" country very close to the equator. Even the very poor in the country had clean drinking water by way of public "water stands" and had shoes by way of very cheap mass produced shoes from China. Very, very few people gave a damn about A/C. We've lived in this climate for thousands of years, people simply build houses and dress to suit the climate.
How about adding frigging exchange support to the calendaring app....
I guess no one on the entire Mozilla Calendar team or the user community, for that matter, has thought of that right?:)
Not trying to give you a hard time, but what you're asking for would be very, very, difficult. You would essentially have to reverse engineer Microsoft's MAPI over RPC protocol. Many have tried, none have succeeded. Or, if you only support newer versions of Exchange with OWA turned on, use Microsoft's WebDAV based calendar schema built on Exchange WebAccess, like Evolution does.
Mozilla is doing the best they could I think, they're basing their app on a protocol on the IETF standards track http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-dusseault-c aldav/
If an organization wants to get rid of Exchange entirely, they then can give their Outlook users a MAPI plugin that supports CalDAV. We're an opensource plugin at OpenConnector.org.
Without full AD integration it's still kind of pointless.
Would you care to enlighten us on what "full AD integration" means? Active directory is just an LDAP server user to most applications. That's a trivial feature to implement.
Not to mention the hundreds (thousands?) of programs that need Exchange.
Can you give some examples of applications that most firms would actually need? Also note that many of those applications exist because Exchange is deficient in areas.
The closest I have worked with administratively is Domino and that was an admins nightmare.
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A few extremists can make a lot of people look bad to others who jump to conclusions.
You'd think clear thinking, logical people, would understand that not every Muslim is on a mission to harm them.
You'd think we'd be passed this point by now.
Sigh...
Come on. This is uncalled for, and at the very least distasteful.
There a billions of Muslims in the world. Are you suggesting that even the majority are bad.
You need to understand that the media has no incentive to show you the good that occurs in the world, regardless of religion. Someone dedicates their live to killing others, that's news. Someone dedicates their live to helping others, that's not.
You listed some very, very, nasty things that probably made the news because they are just that. Do you think those attrocities are unique to the Muslim community? You want to list the economic hardships women go through in the Western world? Or compare the worst that's been reported in Western papers?
Do you really? This is very disappointing, to be honest.
I am not condoning the violence, neither am I a muslim, but your argument doesn't follow. Not because the cartoons have been out for a while does it mean that no one cared. Has it occurred to you that it took that look to get out to the majority of the people who did care?
Did you hear about the cartoons when they were published. I know I didn't.
Maybe the spec is saying that if you have the optional head you must have a title tag in it?
When an impromptu demonstration of the device on technology reporter, CmdrTaco, from a popular website "Slashdot.org" produced this startling result.
For years people right here in the US have been selling body fluids and enrolling in drug trials to make extra cash.
But there's a moral issue when it is done in some other country?
Can we quite patronizing the people? They're poor not retarded.
But...
Music lyrics are copyrighted material...
And the agents of the MPA are presumabley, agents of the songwriters. And they are requesting that their works be taken down.
So why the outrage? Are you suggesting that you have some right to the songwriter's works against their wishes?
My solution to this issue is to let the MPA get what they want. Hopefully smarter artists will, in the future, fill the void this creates.
I don't like popular media either. I've switched television with Netflix and Blockbuster and had Sirius over FM. Six months ago I switched to XM.
Both XM and Sirius are much better than FM, hands down. But Sirius, to me, has the same annoying DJ problem, and XM will play just about any track on anybody's album. If I hear "That was 'rocking your naval' by 'CmdrTaco and the Trolls'..." someday, I won't be the least surprise.
XM, in my opinion, really needs to shorten their playlist a bit and Sirius needs less talk and to lengthen theirs.
Why on earth does that concern you?
This proposal allows the viewer to decide what is indecent and what is ok.
Everyone, including Joe Righteous, should have a right to do this.
Remember, You do not have a right to impose your values on 'Joe Righeous' any more than he has a right to impose his on you.
Zend refuses to add basic features such as a basic accelerator ( PHP scripts get recompiled on every request ). In fact, there was a rumor that Zend bought and killed http://sourceforge.net/projects/turck-mmcache/, the best accelerator out there because it competed with their commercial product.
I understand that money has to be made for development to continue, but that's no way to compete.
PHP server needs true session and application scope variables. File-based session variables it has right now means that any variable that's not serializable ( eg. file descriptor ) can not be saved in the session scope. This is a huge problem. It results in developers making countless round trips to their database to serialize data, and hence making PHP scripts more dependant on close/performant database in general. There was an mmap based solution being worked on, but haven't heard much about it lately.
Other web environments have had these features for years.
I'm guessing that that sought of restriction on the PHP server will continue until an alternative server is developed and begins to gain popularity.
Why not join in and support the effort?
Opening up? Things to come?
Sun has been one of the biggest commercial open source supporters for years now. Probably only surpassed by IBM and the Linux companies ( RedHat and Suse, Linux is their core business after all ).
Millions to buy StarOffice, millions to setup and run OO.org and OpenDocument development, marketing, promoting OpenDocument. Releasing packages like GridEngine, etc. http://www.sunsource.net/. Years of shipping and support opensource applications to companies that would never have used it otherwise.
Back when I was a network admin, we got a whole lot of GNU software in the system by first showing superiors that Sun endorsed those packages and actually provided solaris binaries.
Sun's main issue is PR, I suspect. When IBM does something good, it makes sure everyone knows. But that doesn't seem to be McNealy's style...
One advantage to firebird is that it has an embedded version whilst PostgreSQL doesn't.
Currently I use SQLite but I am thinking of moving to firebird embedded for its extra functionality.
The thing is the term 'bug' predates even that definition. Bug was simply slang for problem,
Eg. Saying "You always seem to have a bug!" to a person that complains a lot. That example is from a short story written in the 1920's. The original usage probably came from the fact that bugs are probably a major annoyance back then.
SQLite is great but concentrates on being a small database. This design choice is great for many applications probably, though poor handling of large rows ( can't read partial blobs, etc. ), weak concurrency model, etc. inconveniences others.
It would be great if there was a common language for store procedures. The RDBMS may support many languages, but that scripting language would be available on most platforms since it was part of the SQL standard.
Another feature missing is optimization hints. Oracle uses special SQL comments to hint to the database how a query should be optimized. Other databases have their own syntax and methods. There should be a way to set those hints in standard SQL.
Again, I'm not religous but I find ethics fascinating. Your argument is a common one, and not without merit, but it...
(i) makes the assumption that without organized religion these fundamentalist wouldn't be finding other reasons to kill each other. Using what we know if human nature, I suspect they would.
(ii) ingores any existing benefits chrisian ethics may have on existing practising societies. In other words, if the a moral doctrine says at times to kill and others times to not kill, how do we find out its net effect on the murder rate? Abrahamic religions allow violence in a few corner cases, but the overall very strongly discourages it.
These religions and also secular moral doctrines are tools, they have no conscious. Billions of people use these tools to pass along net beneficial ethics, moral doctrines, ideologies between generations.
Can you justifiably suggest that they abandon this approach because of the few Osama Bin Ladens of the world?
I am not religous person, nor do I think violence in video games is necesarily a problem but the bible bashing is really getting old.
Maybe you can explain why christian ethics directly contribute to the problem? Are you seriously arguing that the violence depicted in the bible may be also encourage violence in readers?
No, we have not made absolutely certain.
And we can argue that video games are not really damaging to kids. But can we argue that, if it is, allowing one industry to get away with a crime reason enough to allow another?
Assuming both violent video games and movies are detrimental to the well being of minors, shouldn't society be regulating both, instead of neither?
Has it occurred to you that a significant amount of the third world has clean water and doesn't need A/C units?!
Not everyone who is poor lives like a child off a Sally Struthers commericial.
It's funny that the suggesting cheap educational computers be scrapped for A/C Units was modded insightful. Remarkable!
I grew up in a "third world" country very close to the equator. Even the very poor in the country had clean drinking water by way of public "water stands" and had shoes by way of very cheap mass produced shoes from China. Very, very few people gave a damn about A/C. We've lived in this climate for thousands of years, people simply build houses and dress to suit the climate.
I guess no one on the entire Mozilla Calendar team or the user community, for that matter, has thought of that right? :)
Not trying to give you a hard time, but what you're asking for would be very, very, difficult. You would essentially have to reverse engineer Microsoft's MAPI over RPC protocol. Many have tried, none have succeeded. Or, if you only support newer versions of Exchange with OWA turned on, use Microsoft's WebDAV based calendar schema built on Exchange WebAccess, like Evolution does.
Mozilla is doing the best they could I think, they're basing their app on a protocol on the IETF standards track http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-dusseault-c aldav/
If an organization wants to get rid of Exchange entirely, they then can give their Outlook users a MAPI plugin that supports CalDAV. We're an opensource plugin at OpenConnector.org.
No. Exchange uses calendaring uses RPC/MAPI or WebDAV.
If not... Can they pull of "Exchange-like" behavior with calenders and meetings on a pop server?
No. They use CalDAV for calendar sharing.
I live in Florida. And judging from the tourist themselves, I'd say we have plenty of megafauna in North America.
Would you care to enlighten us on what "full AD integration" means? Active directory is just an LDAP server user to most applications. That's a trivial feature to implement.
Not to mention the hundreds (thousands?) of programs that need Exchange.
Can you give some examples of applications that most firms would actually need? Also note that many of those applications exist because Exchange is deficient in areas.
The closest I have worked with administratively is Domino and that was an admins nightmare.
Maybe you should have looked around a bit more?
I think its funny that you do not know what features the alternatives lack, but you see those features as manatory for a viable alternative .
Microsoft takes, the communication protocol of the day and dumps it in Exchange, and writes the client side support into Outlook.
IM, VOIP, CRM, ERP, you-name-it, MS as Exchange/Outlook support for it.
The vast majority of small firms won't need those features. Many just what to send/recieve email and share calendars internally.